Jean-Marie Chevalier (4 June 1941 â 31 October 2021) was a French economist. He specialized in energy economics from the 1970s until the 2000s.
Chevalier was born in Paris on 4 June 1941 into a family from Creuse. He graduated from Sciences Po in 1962 and earned a doctorate in economics from the Sorbonne.
Chevalier was a professor of economics at Algiers 1 University from 1966 to 1969 and subsequently worked as an economics engineer for Elf Aquitaine from 1970 to 1971. He then taught economic sciences at Mohammed V University from 1971 to 1973, at Pierre Mendès-France University from 1973 to 1975, and at the ÃÂcole nationale d'administration from 1975 to 1991. He was Director of the , located at Paris Dauphine University, until 2010. He also frequented the Paris office of the Cambridge Energy Research Associates.
In 2007, Chevalier co-authored a report advocating an end to France's energy independence in order to fulfill the country's commitments to the European Union. He was a member of the Conseil d'Analyse ÃÂconomique from 2006 to 2010, a member of the Cercle des économistes, and the author of several books and articles on the field of energy.
Chevalier died on 31 October 2021 at the age of 80.